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Braids
Better Than: Huffing Ether while reading old Facebook messages.
Braids straight up tricked us. In 2010, when the Canadian cloud-rock quartet properly debuted in America, they were the toast of CMJ, playing at least one notable show at Cake...
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[Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.]
J-Zone has taken a break from his self-imposed exile from the rap world to ready his new album, Peter Pan Syn...
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But I'm a little disappointed. Last year, EA Sports eliminated the rap-and-alternative soundtrack the game had for the last 10 years, changing to an orchestral score. The Madden soundtracks were never all that great, but they made me nostalgic. Back ...
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Dear Fan,
As of late, I have had the pleasure of helping my friend's band book a tour, and as excruciatingly painful as it can be, I'm doing it because I'm an aspiring booking agent. Now I'm not helping a band lucrative enough to even need an agent, ...
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See also: Afropunk Started With a Documentary. Ten Years, Two Websites, and Eight Festivals Later...
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Next to "baby," "love," "yeah, "ooh," and "hey," the word "fuck" might be the most ubiquitous word in the history of pop. People love to curse in their songs. It's given us hundreds of memorable hooks, and hours of litigation. It's forced countless ...
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For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Monday, 8/26:
Braids + Headaches
The Glasslands Gallery
8:30 p.m., $12
These Canadian art rockers have been shaking walls with their fierce harmonies...
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Labor Day is just a week away. It's your last chance to see comedians work dirtier, push envelopes harder, and tell industrial quantities of Ben Affleck/Batman jokes before "real life" resumes. Here are our picks for the best of the bunch.
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This Sunday is the 30th MTV Video Music Awards. The show's come a long way from the days of Bette Midler and basic-cable bedlam--it's one of the most influential award shows on television. Youth driven channel that it is, MTV itself seldom looks bac...
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See also: Your Guide to the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards
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10. Britney Spears Humiliates the Vienna Philharmonic
In what was supposed to be a thrilling mash-up of pop and classical music, Britney Spears turned her performance of "I...
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First, consider yourself lucky If you own one of the following t-shirts; then consider listing it on Etsy. These sellers are expecting mad cash for their rare band tees. Would you pay what they're asking to own one a piece of tour history?
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For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Friday, 8/23:
.WAVs cruise: Ladytron
Pier 83
9pm, $25
Who knew that Lonely Island's "I'm on a Boat" wasn't just a mildly funny parody rap, but als...
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Kendrick "Best Verse" enabler and undisputed champion of the ass pun Big Sean is dropping an album next week, Hall of Fame. Along with it, naturally, a super secret album release concert/party is scheduled to take place the night of the 27th. Very se...
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Let's back up a few days and explain. I have the chance to hang out with Speedy Ortiz, the fast-rising college rock (subcategory: loud rock) band that's been burning up the indie world with a Best New Music from Pitchfork, a sardonic attitude straigh...
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This Sunday is the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The 30th installment of the annual anything-goes award show, this year's festivities are, for the first time, broadcasting live from Brooklyn at the Barclays Center. Also historic is the brand new KAWS-...
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Which is not to say that music championing equal rights for people of all genders and sexual identities isn't absolutely necessary--after all, the arts are supposed to lead culture--but the manner in wh...
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For a while, tweeters and Purple Rain fans had nothing more than the the hilarious and surprisingly accurate parody account of the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince that locked in the appropriate handle PrinceTweets2U. But ...
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By Craig Outhier
Though I firmly believe "Cheeseburger in Paradise" to be the single biggest piece-of-crap pop song of all time -- worse, even, than Bob Seger's execrable "Katmandu" -- this won't be a rant about Jimmy Buffett's musical abilities. Or...
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Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.
DJ Spinna will be holding down deck duties at a Michael Jackson tribute party this Sunday. Once that's in the b...
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It's only Monday, but shit has already hit the fan at Afropunk HQ. A second wave of performers was supposed to be announced on the festival's website on Wednesday, but this morning one miscommunication led to another, and now they've accidentally bee...
